The Greenwood City Council along with the city's police chief decided to postpone a proposal for a half-cent sales tax to build a new city police department.

Plans were set in place to allow voters in Greenwood to vote "yes" or "no" for a sales that would pay for a $3.2-million police department building.

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Because of an upcoming vote on another county sales tax they decided to hold off.

“We'd rely pretty heavily on the county sales tax to support our police department and we need to know that tax is going to pass before me start making plans to build a new building,” said Lee Johnson, a Greenwood City councilman.

“I think the need for that tax to be extended, because it’s not a new tax at this point is more important than the department,” said Will Dawson, Greenwood City police chief.

Plans called for the half-cent sales tax to help fund the project.

If approved, the half-cent sales tax would fund the project $5 million for 10 years.

For now, they're waiting for the results of this upcoming county sales tax vote.

“Right now we’re just in a holding pattern to see what happens with the county sales tax, it’s an important issue. We don’t want to take away from that. We need that just as much as the county does," said Dawson.

The vote to renew the existing Sebastian County sales tax is scheduled for March 15.